In 2017, the Partition of India is marked by its 70th anniversary. Drawing on the readings of departure and partial histories, the exhibition Part Narratives commemorates this event, and brings the art production that surrounded it within museum and art discourse. At the same time it turns our attention to issues of migration as they beset the world at present, to the long shadow of Partition and its passage through time.
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Part Narratives

Curated by Gayatri Sinha
AUG 13, 2017 - SEPT 19, 2017
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This brass image shows eight-armed Durga riding a lion, subduing the anthropomorphic form of the buffalo demon 'Mahishasura'. This avatar of Durga is worshipped during the Indian festival of Navaratri. The iconography associated with the weapons she wields in her hands indicates the heroic, ferocious yet just nature of the goddess Durga. Her ornaments and the drape of her sari is similar to that worn by women in the Deccan and her diagonal poise lends dynamism to the image.
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Mahishasuramaradini, brass, late 19th to early 20th
century, Pune
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